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H-Diplo ROUNDTABLE XXII-46 H-Diplo ROUNDTABLE XXII-46 Stephen G. Rabe. Kissinger and Latin America: Intervention, Human Rights, and Diplomacy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781501706295 (hardcover, $41.95). 21 June 2021 | https://hdiplo.org/to/RT22-46 Editor: Diane Labrosse | Production Editor: George Fujii Contents Introduction by Alan McPherson, Temple University ......................................................................................................................... 2 Review by Thomas C. Field Jr., Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University ........................................................................................ 5 Review by Andrew J. Kirkendall, Texas A&M University .................................................................................................................... 8 Review by Aaron Coy Moulton, Stephen F. Austin State University ........................................................................................... 10 Review by Michelle D. Paranzino, U.S. Naval War College .............................................................................................................. 14 Response by Stephen G. Rabe, University of Texas at Dallas ........................................................................................................ 16 H-Diplo Roundtable XXII-46 Introduction by Alan McPherson, Temple University Since 1988, we have seen the appearance of one major monograph on the Latin American policy of four Cold War administrations, and Stephen Rabe is responsible for 75 percent of that output. His highly admired studies of Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy’s hemispheric affairs were recently complemented by Thomas Allcock’s look at Lyndon Johnson’s through his prime Latin Americanist, Thomas Mann.1 Picking up Allcock’s strategy of focusing on a presidential advisor rather than a president, Rabe covers the administration of Richard Nixon (with less coverage of Gerald Ford) through the foreign policy of National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. In Kissinger and Latin America, Rabe argues that Kissinger was more involved in Latin American affairs than previous historians have thought. In the Southern Cone, the story is relatively well known: Obsessed with East-West security issues, Kissinger glossed over the human rights violations and other attacks on democracy of almost any Latin American military dictatorship. He proved an especially amoral Cold Warrior who backed murderous dictatorships even when conservatives in the State Department recoiled at the excesses. On economic matters, however, Rabe portrays Kissinger as open-minded, leading negotiations with Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and Ecuador. Rabe also sees Kissinger as somewhat successful in opening negotiations with Panama over the canal, and equally open (though less successful) in sustaining talks with Cuba. The distinguished group of historians of U.S.-Latin American affairs gathered here agree that Rabe’s topic is “heavily underexamined,” as Aaron Moulton writes, including its implications not only for the historiography of hemispheric relations but also for “Kissingerology.” They also all recognize Rabe’s enormous contributions over his lengthy career. On this book, however, they are split: two are largely positive while the other two are more critical. In the most detailed positive review, Thomas Field sees Kissinger and Latin America as “something of a return to form” for Rabe. He appreciates how Rabe “illuminates the contradictory nature of foreign policy during the Kissinger years” and suggests the benefit of including less-known Nixon/Ford-era cases such as Peru, Uruguay, and Field’s own favored topic, Bolivia. The focus on Kissinger’s so-called realism in Latin America exposes his sycophantic attraction to strongmen, from the left as well as the right. When nationalists such as Panama’s Omar Torrijos demanded respect for his small nation’s sovereignty, for instance, Kissinger proved uncharacteristically non-interventionist. Andy Kirkendall, in another positive review, finds Rabe’s argument about the Jekyll and Hyde approach of Kissinger refreshingly “surprising” and ranks the book among Rabe’s best. He focuses on another Kissingerian personality trait—he was a “control freak,” as Rabe calls him. Like Field, Kirkendall appreciates the book’s “fairly comprehensive approach.” The most common critique is over the argument. Michelle Paranzino finds the book to be “successful neither as a biography of Kissinger nor as a history of Latin America in the Kissinger years.” Aaron Moulton largely agrees that Rabe “inadvertently undermines the analytical lens” of his earlier works with his organization of this book. Echoing Paranzino, Moulton contends that, in trying to fulfill too many disparate goals, the book ends up with an introduction and conclusion that advance historiographical contributions while the country-specific chapters offer straightforward narratives that fail to sustain any through line in the argument. For instance, the “paradox,” as Rabe calls it, of Kissinger spending a lot of time on Latin America while supporting right-wing governments is neither fully explained in the bookends nor illustrated in the chapters. Moulton also argues that Rabe does not address “how Kissinger’s tunnel vision on the bipolar U.S.-Soviet conflict 1 Stephen G. Rabe, Eisenhower and Latin America: The Foreign Policy of Anticommunism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988); Rabe, The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999); and Thomas Tunstall Allcock, Thomas C. Mann: President Johnson, the Cold War, and the Restructuring of Latin American Foreign Policy (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2018). © 2021 The Authors | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 US 2 | Page H-Diplo Roundtable XXII-46 intersected or collided with his approach to other regions.” Again, like Paranzino, he concludes that the book does not make meaningful arguments about either Kissinger or Latin America. Field also notes that Rabe never resolves the paradox of Kissinger’s dual policy, though he finds “little to disagree with here” other than insufficient insight into how the Kissinger-Nixon relationship impacted policy. Kirkendall, meanwhile, bemoans the “virtual absence” of Ford from the book. Paranzino finds more to disagree with. She would have preferred a chronological organization, writing that it “could have eliminated the repetition of background information about the policies and proclivities of Kissinger’s predecessors while facilitating a more robust analysis of the changes and continuities in Kissinger’s own thinking and in his approach to the region.” She also faults Rabe for “sweeping unsubstantiated claims,” such as the generalization of Latin Americans blaming Kissinger for the 1973 coup in Chile. He substantiates such claims, she notes, with anecdotes from academic conferences, not Latin American historiography. She takes him to task for the larger sins of including “almost no Latin American sources” and overlooking the latest English-language scholarship. Field, in contrast, notes Rabe’s “exhaustive” use of recently declassified U.S. government documents. Field seems to disagree with Paranzino in seeing in Rabe’s intent the writing of “a diplomatic history of foreign policymaking and implementation, and not an exegesis of Latin American politics or culture.” Rabe highlights old-fashioned political power and the need to denounce U.S. Cold War crimes while still recognizing the agency of Latin Americans. Kirkendall, meanwhile, agrees with Paranzino that Rabe’s portrayal of U.S. power as a blunt instrument fueled by Cold War ignorance neglects the more subtle appreciations of historians such as Tanya Harmer and Matias Spektor.2 The fault lines in this roundtable may speak to the increasing challenges in writing the history of U.S.-Latin American relations during the later Cold War. One of those is methodological, as more historians who work with primary and secondary Spanish-language sources find scholarship that does appear to be increasingly incomplete. Second is a wariness of what Moulton calls a “bureaucratic analysis” centered on Washington diplomats and their ambassadorial staff around the world. Third and perhaps most overwhelming is the increasing complexity of Latin America’s foreign relations after the 1960s, precisely as Nixon and Kissinger took the reins of foreign policy. After the decline of the euphoria of the early Cuban Revolution and the evident failure of the guerrilla path to power, ideologies hardened—especially on the right—leaders became more cynical, and governments looked beyond the United States for goods and services, whether in the form of loans, tanks, port managers, or political consultants. Kissinger found himself dealing with a rapidly globalizing and diversifying continent, and there was little that even he, for all his cunning and resources, could do to steer the supertanker. Writing about Kissinger in Latin America may increasingly mean writing about his failures rather than his mastery. Stephen Rabe has, at the very least, sparked a debate about how to do so. Participants: Stephen G. Rabe is the Ashbel Smith Chair in History (emeritus) at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he served for forty years. He has subsequently been an affiliated faculty member at the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon. Rabe received his Ph.D. from the University of
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